By Peggy Senger Morrison. Unction Press, 2016. 314 pages. $15/paperback; $10/eBook. Rarely have I read a book focused on our Quaker “living experientially” that so skillfully and engagingly infuses a wide range of lived experiences—from ministry to motorcycling—with penetrating, and sometimes refreshingly unpredictable, spiritual insights. Peggy Morrison calls herself a “freelance provocateur of grace,” presenting […]
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William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. He has recently written on the psalms as spiritual directors.
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
By Arlie Russell Hochschild. The New Press, 2016. 315 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $27.99/eBook. One of the most troubling aspects of our current political climate is the ever-growing fear and loathing felt by liberals and conservatives for each other. As we retreat to enclaves of the angry like-minded, how can we find our way forward together? In […]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
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The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers
By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in the peace movement. Forest has previously written well-received biographies of Merton and another colleague, Dorothy Day, with whom he worked at the Catholic Worker. In fact, Forest met Merton through Day. The Root of War […]
Bill Chapman is a member of Indianapolis First Friends Meeting in Indiana. Bill is also the clerk of the Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation.
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Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Revised and Expanded Edition)
By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 352 pages. $22/paperback; $16.99/eBook. The back cover of Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s book, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us, asks potential readers, “Do you desire more of God?” The many and varied spiritual disciplines contained in this collection are all directed toward transforming our deepest yearnings into worship […]
Bob Dixon-Kolar teaches writing at a community college in Illinois and is a member of Evanston (Ill.) Meeting.
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Enlarging Our Circle of Love
By Margaret Fisher. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 440), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. A physician, organic gardener, and member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Margaret Fisher loves to sing. With Enlarging Our Circle of Love she hits the right notes in her hymn to veganism. Fisher speaks to my condition because, unlike die-hard vegans who have no […]
Carl Blumenthal is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting. He was a culture critic at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for 20 years. Food was one of his beats.
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Making a Portrait of Jesus
By John Lampen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 441), 2016. 33 pages. $7/pamphlet. Many have found their way to the Religious Society of Friends via a journey that did not include learning about Jesus in Sunday school. Who was Jesus and what was it like in his time and place? Where can I find a short […]
Brad Sheeks is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting and with his wife, Patricia McBee, has moved to Newtown, Pa., to enjoy retirement and live closer to daughter, Jennie, and her family.
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Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
By Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka. Fordham University Press, 2016. 256 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. Here is a memoir written in 1960 but unpublished until 2016, and highly relevant today. Dr. Michael Dillon (1915–1962) was born female and transitioned to male from 1939 to 1949. He was the first known patient to undergo, in addition to hormonal transition, […]
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Resolving Difference—in our ways of speaking about God or the ultimate reality
By Rex Ambler. Quaker Universalist Group Pamphlets (number 35), 2016. 28 pages. ÂŁ2/pamphlet (see qug.org.uk). North American Friends are familiar with the need to listen well when hearing the words of Friends from meetings different from our own. We cultivate the skill of listening for the place from whence words come, to paraphrase John Woolman’s […]
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Words
By Harvey Gillman. The Friend Publications, 2016. 56 pages. $9/paperback (available from QuakerBooks). British Friend Harvey Gillman deserves to be more widely read on our side of the Atlantic. This collection of articles from the British periodical The Friend has sensitive insights into words we use—or avoid. Gillman asks questions—admittedly familiar ones—about using religious vocabulary. […]
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Spiritual Steps on the Road to Success (Revised Edition)
By Linda Seger. Haven Books, 2015. 279 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Friend Linda Seger takes on the ever-relevant questions of personal success and dealing with things like risk, competition, praise, and blame. In her book, personal success is not separate from life with God. This new edition is “broader in its spirituality.” This book helps readers […]
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